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U.S. Committee on National Security Systems (CNSS), <em style="text-align:left">National Policy on the Use of the Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) to Protect National Security Systems and National Security Information</em>, CNSS Policy No. 15, Fact Sheet
 No. 1, June 2003, available at <a href="http://csrc.nist.gov/groups/STM/cmvp/documents/CNSS15FS.pdf" style="text-align:left; color:#0080c0; text-decoration:none">
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C. E. Shannon, <em style="text-align:left">Communication Theory of Secrecy Systems</em>, Bell System Technical Journal, v. 28, n. 4, 1949</td>
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NIST, <em style="text-align:left">Advanced Encryption Standard (AES)</em>, Federal Information Processing Standards Publication 197, November 26, 2001, available at
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J. Nechvatal, E. Barker, L. Bassham, W. Burr, M. Dworkin, J. Foti, E. Roback, NIST,
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B. Schneier, J. Kelsey, D. Whiting, D. Wagner, C. Hall, N. Ferguson, T. Kohno, M. Stay,
<em style="text-align:left">The Twofish Team's Final Comments on AES Selection, </em>
May 15, 2000, available at <a href="http://csrc.nist.gov/archive/aes/round2/comments/20000515-bschneier.pdf" style="text-align:left; color:#0080c0; text-decoration:none">
http://csrc.nist.gov/archive/aes/round2/comments/20000515-bschneier.pdf</a>.</td>
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Bruce Schneier, <em style="text-align:left">Beyond Fear: Thinking Sensibly About Security in an Uncertain World</em>, Springer, 2003
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RSA Laboratories, <em style="text-align:left">PKCS #5 v2.0: Password-Based Cryptography Standard</em>, RSA Data Security, Inc. Public-Key Cryptography Standards (PKCS), March 25, 1999, available at
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https://www.emc.com/emc-plus/rsa-labs/standards-initiatives/pkcs-5-password-based-cryptography-standard.htm</a>.</td>
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H. Krawczyk, M. Bellare, R. Canetti, <em style="text-align:left">HMAC: Keyed-Hashing for Message Authentication</em>, RFC 2104, February 1997, available at
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http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2104.txt</a>. </td>
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M. Nystrom, RSA Security, <em style="text-align:left">Identifiers and Test Vectors for HMAC-SHA-224, HMAC-SHA-256, HMAC-SHA-384, and HMAC-SHA-512</em>, RFC 4231, December 2005, available at
<a href="http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc4231.txt" style="text-align:left; color:#0080c0; text-decoration:none">
http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc4231.txt</a>.</td>
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Peter Gutmann, <em style="text-align:left">Software Generation of Practically Strong Random Numbers</em>, presented at the 1998 Usenix Security Symposium, available at
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Carl Ellison, <em style="text-align:left">Cryptographic Random Numbers</em>, originally an appendix to the P1363 standard, available at
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P. Rogaway, <em style="text-align:left">Efficient Instantiations of Tweakable Blockciphers and Refinements to Modes OCB and PMAC</em>, Asiacrypt 2004. LNCS vol. 3329. Springer, 2004. Also available at:
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http://www.cs.ucdavis.edu/~rogaway/papers/offsets.pdf</a>.</td>
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J. Kelsey, <em style="text-align:left">Twofish Technical Report #7: Key Separation in Twofish</em>, AES Round 2 public comment, April 7, 2000</td>
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NIST, <em style="text-align:left">Secure Hash Standard</em>, FIPS 180-2, August 1, 2002, available at
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U. Maurer, J. Massey, <em style="text-align:left">Cascade Ciphers: The Importance of Being First</em>, Journal of Cryptology, v. 6, n. 1, 1993
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Bruce Schneier, <em style="text-align:left">Applied Cryptography</em>, Second Edition, John Wiley &amp; Sons, 1996
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Information technology &ndash; Security techniques &ndash; Hash-functions &ndash; Part 3: Dedicated hash-functions</em>, ISO/IEC 10118-3:2004, February 24, 2004</td>
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NIST, <em style="text-align:left">The Keyed-Hash Message Authentication Code (HMAC)</em>, Federal Information Processing Standards Publication 198, March 6, 2002, available at
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RSA Laboratories, <em style="text-align:left">PKCS #11 v2.20: Cryptographic Token Interface Standard</em>, RSA Security, Inc. Public-Key Cryptography Standards (PKCS), June 28, 2004, available at
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</a>PDF available at <a href="https://www.cryptsoft.com/pkcs11doc/STANDARD/pkcs-11v2-20.pdf">
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<p>Morris Dworkin, <em style="text-align:left">Recommendation for Block Cipher Modes of Operation: The XTS-AES Mode for Confidentiality on Storage Devices</em>, NIST Special Publication 800-3E, January 2010, available at
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http://csrc.nist.gov/publications/nistpubs/800-38E/nist-sp-800-38E.pdf</a>.</p>
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<p>NIST, Approved Security Functions for FIPS PUB 140-2, Security Requirements for Cryptographic Modules, October 8, 2010, available at
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http://csrc.nist.gov/publications/fips/fips140-2/fips1402annexa.pdf</a></p>
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